Deportation tears a West Toledo family apart Toledo chef, wife to return to South Korea, leave son here.

The options were limited and the choice excruciating.

In a simple West Toledo apartment yesterday, Dae Jung sorted and stacked belongings bound for his homeland. If all goes as scheduled, the 46-year-old sushi chef and his imprisoned wife, Young, will meet tomorrow at Detroit Metropolitan-Wayne County Airport's international terminal.

With immigration officials nearby, they will say good-bye to friends, supporters, and their 15-year-old son, Andrew, a U.S. citizen.

At about 2:35 p.m., the Jungs will board Northwest Airlines Flight No. 25 for a 7,157-mile flight to Incheon, South Korea, leaving behind the city they've called home for more than two decades.

At his Secor Road apartment yesterday, Mr. Jung ran his hands through his hair. A Korean-English dictionary was on the coffee table next to snapshots of a smiling Mrs. Jung and Andrew. Dried roses and a wooden cross his wife had hung still adorned the walls.

No one questions that immigration policy can be frustrating for people wanting to immigrate to this country. I tend toward libertarian policies, but as Milton Friedman himself points out, it is impossible to have a social welfare state (which we have) and open immigration. About 80% of the world's population live with a lower standard of living than recipients of public assistance in this country. Unless we want a couple billion welfare clients we need to do something to control our borders.

The enforcement of immigration policies is admittedly perverse, penalizing those who would be productive and rewarding freeloaders.

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posted on 08/10/2005 7:25:01 AM PDT
by Lonesome in Massachussets
(Lonesome's First Law: Whenever anyone says it's not about the money, it's about the money.)

P.S. Keep you eyes and ears open for stories about pregnant muslim women being brought into the U.S. on tourist visas (Detroit and Toledo areas specifically) to give birth to their children who are automatically made U.S. citizens even though their mothers are only here on visas.

The mothers and children then return to the middle east complete with a U.S. passport allowing the child to come back once he's been trained to be a good jihadist.

The muslims have a very long range plan with respect to the conquest of the U.S.

There are thousands of true, heart-tugging immigration stories like this every year. It's possible to feel empathy for the plight of families like this without demanding open borders, or even exceptions to policy. As far as sympathy goes, however, that falls between sh*t and syphilis in the dictionary. I should add, parenthetically, that being sent back to the ROK is not exactly like being sent to a North Korean gulag. South Korea is a modern, industrialized country with ample employment opportunities. And bear in mind that after their son reaches his maturity, he can (assuming no change to existing immigration law) bring his parents back to the States in six years, legally this time.

There are thousands of true, heart-tugging immigration stories like this every year.

Well, you just keep on being a supporter of this administration in particular and of a bungling bureaucracy in general. Your name is legion.

I think the point is that, while this good Christian woman was kept in prison these last many months, millions of thugs from Mexico and who knows how many terrorists poured over our borders with impunity.

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posted on 08/10/2005 7:55:36 AM PDT
by iconoclast
(They Just Don't Get It ... by Colonel David Hunt. Get it. Read it.)

"The couple's woes began in 1995, when immigration officials questioned why Mr. Jung was not following through on education plans he had set out on his visa application.

The Jungs, who have been married 21 years, came to Toledo in 1984 so Mr. Jung could attend the University of Toledo, but he failed to continue the education at a Michigan language school, according to immigration officials. At a 1996 hearing, the Jungs were ordered deported."

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